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1 " But in the hours that were really minutes, he didn't beg me not to leave. He didn't say he hadn't meant it. When I stood, his gaze just followed me up. Then I was a shattered blown-glass blue rose, and every step away from him made my shards clatter and chime. "
― Jodi Meadows , Asunder (Newsoul, #2)
2 " I’m going,’ he said, and in the temple light, I caught his determination, and that strength he got from loving me. It made him brave. "
3 " Just because you want friends with you doesn't make you selfish. It makes you human. And even when we think something's an unwise idea, that doesn't mean we've stopped believing in you. I will never stop believing in you. What I said about believing you can do anything, be anything -- I still think that. I still admire that you don't let others' limitations stop you. I love that about you. I love you. "
4 " The sylph twitched – acknowledgement – and a tendril of shadow blossomed like a black rose, then fell to my feet. "
5 " I lifted my hand toward the black smoke. People hissed, but when my fingers passed through, there was only uncomfortable warmth. The sylph hummed, calmer. "
6 " No." Sam laid the rose back on the desk, voice deepening. "He's never done anything awful to me, or to anyone else. He's one of the best souls in Heart. "
7 " What a powerful feeling, love, able to withstand time and distance and disagreements. No wonder I wanted it so badly. "
8 " Why couldn't Sam really be a boy my age, with no more experience than I had? No past lives, past loves.Why couldn't he be only for me? "
9 " It was our relationship, so what other people thought shouldn't matter. "
10 " I had to drop my head back to meet his eyes, and the way he said my name--it was the same reverence people used in their prayers to Janan. "
11 " It seems love is the most important thing. Someone who doesn't love us and uses us to hurt others was never worth our devotion. "
12 " My courage was as thin as silk, but I held it around me like armor and urged myself up the stairs, dragging the remains of my dignity. "
13 " My life might have begun as a mistake, but I wouldn't let it end as one. "
14 " What happened after death? Where did you go? What did you do? The scariest possibility was that we might. just. stop. "
15 " Just accept it, Ana. You can't stop your friends from loving you. You can't stop Sam from feeling the way he does. You know I admire that you question things, but this - this doesn't have to be one of them. "
16 " I have to get out," I told Sam. "I need to get away. Will you go with me?" "Anywhere," he said and kissed me. "
17 " People do tend to forget traumatic things. It's your mind's way of protecting itself. "
18 " Scared people are creative people. "
19 " There was a huge difference between loving a feeling or event -- and loving a person. "
20 " Another benefit of being ancient: immeasurable patience. "
